Technology leaders in particular have pushed for H-1B visas — visas that allow U.S. companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations — so that they may hire graduates from foreign universities to work in Silicon Valley.

Herb Reed and similar decisions following the reasoning of eBay have elevated the burden of proof for plaintiffs, and provided defendants — “Great Pretenders” or not — with a more favorable playing field in surviving trademark challenges.

A new study from Pew Research, “Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era,” provides some startling numbers to support the idea that Americans are concerned about their privacy.

InsideCounsel recently spoke with the authors of the study, Dr. Robert Litan, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Dr. Hal J. Singer, principal at Economists Incorporated, to discuss their findings.